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FreeREG - Search UK Parish Register Indices. About Genealogy - Learn How to Research Your Family Tree. FreeBMD Entry Info. Free Family History and Genealogy Records — FamilySearch.org. England. Many sets of records were kept for England and Wales together, so that the problems of locating them and using them are very similar in the two countries. For convenience such records are described here, rather than on the British Isles pages. Counties N.B. GENUKI is organised on the basis of historic counties. To find which GENUKI pages cover more modern counties and county boroughs, please see: Modern and Administrative Counties and County Boroughs. Information Related to all of England Archives and Libraries England - Archives and Libraries - links and information. Bibliography G.E. Biography The Books We Own - England pages list books relating to England which volunteers are willing to search on request.

Business and Commerce Records Registration of Companies and Businesses, Domestic Records Information Leaflet 40 in the Research Guides from The National Archives has useful background information. Cemeteries Census England - Census - links and information. Chronology Church History Directories. Relationship. Genealogy related news/articles and discussion. IAmA Genealogy Researcher who has compiled a family tree spanning six generations which includes over 1200 people. AMA : IAmA. Researching Your Family History Using RootsUK. Price Surname Meaning, Origins & Distribution | Family Name. Find Price Family Records This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. Welsh Ap-Rice or Ap-Rees=son of Rice (q.v). 'Item, geven to Harry ap-Rice', 1544: Privy Purse Exp., Princess Mary. Philip ap Rys. Lodovicus Apprise. John Apryce, Valor Ecclesiasticus. Lewis ap-Rhys, prebendary of St. 1563. 1579. . — A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, written: 1872-1896 by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley Welsh, Ap Rhys, the son of Rhys.

. — Patronymica Britannica, written: 1838-1860 by Mark Antony Lower Price, etc. . — Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy The prevailing practice in connection with the orthography of Welsh names is well illustrated in the case of Price. The Welsh name is said to be from Ap-Rice or -Rees, son of Rice or Rees; but both names may be from Cornish prâs, a meadow. . — Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock A Welsh name, said to be from Ap-Rhys, son of Rhys. . — Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock. McMullen Surname Meaning, Origins & Distribution | Family Name.